Enterprise Cloud Architect

**CAREER OPPORTUNITY**
- A great career opportunity exists in Santam’s Business Information Technology Services team (BITS) in the Western Cape or Gauteng for an Enterprise Cloud Architect.**JOB DESCRIPTION**
- The purpose of an enterprise architect is to align Santam’s business strategy and objectives with its information technology infrastructure.- Being involved in the complete Santam landscape, the enterprise architect ensures that Santam’s systems, processes, and resources are effectively designed, implemented, and managed to support the overall business goals.In effect, the enterprise architect bridges the gap between business and technology allowing Santam to achieve its long-term goals by leveraging appropriate- PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE:
**Architecture functions**
- Analyse Santam business strategy and translate it into an IT strategy that supports the business vision.
- Establish and enforce architecture and design governance processes, principles and standards to ensure consistency, interoperability, and compliance across IT projects and systems.
- Oversee the alignment of IT initiatives with the enterprise architecture and facilitate decision-making regarding technology investments.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business leaders, project managers, developers, and other architects, to understand their requirements and constraints. Enterprise architects communicate the architectural vision and plans effectively, ensuring buy-in and understanding from all involved parties.
- Understands how the business requirements can be met using the available cloud solutions or defines what additional solutions is needed.
- Evaluate cloud solutions, emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices to inform decision-making regarding technology adoption, modernization, and retirement.
- Assessment of the impact of new cloud business solutions on the information technology landscape. Includes execution of technical due diligence across all dimensions of IT
- Identification of potential risks / issues and give input into risk plan.
- Active engagement with technology partners to deliver an integrated solution across platforms and across cloud solution partners.

**Generic functions**
- Ensure that solution implementations are coherent and consistent with technology strategies, governance and architecture.
- Provide advice and consultancy across the Santam Group on the enterprise architecture matters.
- Participate in reviews and provide guidance to teams to ensure that the principles, architecture and strategies are followed.
- Establish and participate in design reviews, regular architectural reviews and technical issue management meetings.
- Ensure that design is optimised for use on the specific cloud infrastructure.
- Provide support to other members of the development team and members of the business management team as required.
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the workings of cloud architectures, solutions and packages
- Work effectively in a team with other Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Business Architects and Lead developers to consider design alternatives and agree on appropriate design decisions in support of business requirements.
- PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES INCLUDE:
**Cloud functions**
- Establish and maintain Santam Group cloud architecture principles.
- Develop and maintain specific cloud architectures for each of the major cloud providers - AWS, Azure and any other future providers.
- Calculate total cost of ownership options and advise on best and most cost-effective implementations.
- Accountable to establish and maintain Santam Group Logical cloud architecture.
- Accountable to establish and maintain Santam Group Cloud Platform architecture.
- Maintain and mature the architecture capability as per the Zachman framework

**Quality Assurance**
- Ensuring the alignment of initiatives to the target cloud architecture and standards with Santam and the Sanlam Group
- Design and improve the Santam BITS Enterprise Architecture Governance framework
- Accountable to regulate and enforce adherence to the above framework, with a specific focus on cloud aspects, in the Santam Solution Design Forum, Sanlam Saser, and other forums.
- Review agreed implementation, to ensure correct interpretation of the requirements and architecture and strategies
- Facilitate and lead the quality assurance processes for design and development to ensure the ongoing integrity of the end-to-end systems landscape

**QUALIFICATION**
- BSc / BCom / BTech / BEng/ Honours with Information Systems or Business as a major.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred) or Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- KNOWLEDGE and EXPERIENCE- Minimum 12 years of experience in technology roles
- 5 years in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, systems design, operating at enterprise level.
- 3 years of experience in cloud architecture, cloud designs, and cloud im